#334 - byop - Bring Your Own Patches - an Infra-DPK Builder

This week on the podcast, Dan discusses a new tool he built to
simplify CPU patches by using the same tools as the
Infrastructure DPK. byop, or Build Your Own Patches, will take a
list of patches to download and store them in a format that
matches the Infrastructure DPK.
Show Notes

psadmin.conf @ 1:30

Infra-DPK Overview @ 4:45

Create Patched DPK Archives

DPK Redeploy Option



byop Overview @ 10:00

Patching Surgically @ 16:30

Apply CPU Patches with Infrastructure DPK @ 27:00

Dan's method to apply CPU patches

Custom Fact to trigger Infrastructure-DPK processing




/puppet/production/modules/pt_role/lib/facter/cpu.rb
# Set the env var APPLY_INFRA_CPU=true and run the DPK to
apply the Infra-DPK patches Facter.add(:apply_infra_cpu) do
setcode do apply_infra_cpu = ENV["APPLY_INFRA_CPU"] || 'false'
end end



Bash alias I use to apply CPU patches via Infrastructure-DPK
$ alias applycpu='sudo APPLY_INFRA_CPU=true && puppet
apply -e "contain ::pt_profile::pt_tools_deployment" --confdir
/puppet -d' $ applycpu